The future of 1982, that is.
Rick Dickinson, of Dickinson Associates, has uploaded a whole portfolio of images to Flickr – both illustrations and photographs – from his work designing the hardware for the ZX Spectrum. You can view the whole set here.
It’s a lovely slice of British technology history – designing what the home computing revolution would look like. But it’s also full of some lovely illustration, showing just how product design overlaps both engineering and more aesthetic disciplines.
And I really liked this drawing of the keyboard.
(Image: “Sketch for how the keyboard plate might be fixed” by Rick Dickinson on Flickr)
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